118 New York City Schools Seek To Experiment With Teaching

New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina speaking to members of the Association for a Better New York during one of the association’s breakfast series at the Sheraton hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

Agaton Strom for The Wall Street Journal

Staff at 118 New York City schools want to try new ways of improving instruction by bending certain union rules and city regulations, the Department of Education announced Tuesday.

The schools applied to join the so-called PROSE program–or Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools for Excellence–an initiative enabled under the United Federation of Teachers contract settled last summer.

The city will announce next month which have won permission to experiment in the 2015-16 school year.